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would be to attribute their opposition to self-sufficiency and 

 conceit.^ 



At present the tendency is rightly in favour of medium 

 frames. Baron Carl von Haupt, who merits great praise for 

 introducing frame training into Styria, originally employed as- 

 an experiment 70-inch frames. Recognising, however, that 

 low frames could not furnish the results promised by their 

 inventors, he substituted a 13-foot frame as being apparentljr 

 the most suitable height for enabling the plant to develop in 

 a free and natural manner.^ 



Fig. 59. — Haupt's medium-wire frame. 



The plants are set in spaces 60 inches square, and 

 over each row runs a chain composed of lengths of wire 

 supported in every second row by posts erected at intervals 

 of six stocks and serving to carry the head and cross wires, 

 the ends of which are anchored in the ground. 



A second Hne of longitudinal wire, 70 inches high, runs 

 under each head wire and is fastened to the posts by hooks. 

 In the rows without posts the lower wires are fastened by 

 hooks on to hop poles which also serve as supports for the 

 upper wires. 



In the next place, each hop plant is provided with a short, 



1 Brunck's dwarf cultivation for hops (flexion theory) is quite Utopian. 



2 See Pott and Kraus's Eeport, already cited. 



